"Roxburgh Castle" is a Morris dance tune in 4/4 time and in G major or A major. This is a tune from the Scottish Borders. In its original form it would have been a sailor’s hornpipe, which is like a cross between a hornpipe and a reel (played fast and straight like a reel, but with bouncy hornpipe part endings). It is slowed down a bit and played as a normal hornpipe by morris musicians. Roxburgh Castle is a now ruined royal castle that overlooks the junction of the rivers Tweed and Teviot, in the Borders region of Scotland. Its castleton developed into the royal burgh of Roxburgh, which the Scots destroyed along with the castle after capturing it in 1460. Today the ruins stand in the grounds of Floors Castle, the seat of the Duke of Roxburghe, across the river from Kelso. It appears in Ryan’s Mammoth Collection and Cole's 1000 Fiddle Tunes as "Blanchard’s Hornpipe" (both in A major). It was printed in Karpeles and Schofield's A Selection of 100 English Folk Dance Airs (1951).